2026 Schedule of Events and Activities

His Holiness 17th Gyalwang Karmapa Birthday 2026

The Barom Kagyu Dharma Centres worldwide joyfully celebrated the birthday of His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje.

We conclude by offering prayers for His Holiness’s long life, excellent health, and for all his wishes to be spontaneously fulfilled. May all obstacles be pacified, and may he long remain for the benefit of the teachings and all sentient beings.

Prayer Flag Raising Ceremony

12 May 2026 – 09:00 AM
At Barom Kagyu Chodrak Choe Khorling, 4017 Higuera Highland LN, San Jose, CA

The Prayer Flag Raising Ceremony is a traditional Tibetan Buddhist practice. Prayer flags printed with sacred prayers and mantras are raised in an elevated place so that the wind may carry blessings, peace, good health, longevity, the removal of obstacles, and the increase of merit for all beings.

Barom Kagyu Chodrak Drupju Chuling

Jetsun Milarepa’s anniversary at the Sydney Barom Kagyu Dharma Centre.
གངས་ཅན་གྲུབ་པའི་གཙུག་རྒྱན་རྗེ་བཙུན་མི་ལ་བཞད་པ་རྡོ་རྗེའི་རྗེས་དྲན་འདས་མཆོད།

བྱང་ཕྱོགས་མུན་པའི་སྨག་རུམ་ན། །
གངས་ལ་ཉི་མ་ཤར་འདྲ་བའི། །
ཐོས་པ་དགའ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཡི། །
སྐྱེས་བུ་དེ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །

H.E. Sonam Tenzin Rinpoche’s long-life prayer, written by Drung Goshir Gyaltsab Rinpoche.

Sung by Bhutanese singer Ugyen Lhamo

Barom Kagyu Chodrak Nunnery in the music of A Long Life Prayer of H.E. Sonam Tenzin Rinpoche

Background music: H.E. Sonam Tenzin Rinpoche’s long-life prayer, written by Drung Goshir Gyaltsab Rinpoche, chanted by Bhutanese singer Ugyen Lhamo.

Weekly Dharma Pactice Programme

At Barom Kagyu Chodrak Choe Khorling California